John lowe



J. LOWE.

LAGING HOOK.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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.NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LOWE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. V

LAClNG-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,919, dated April2'7, 1886.

Application filed March 3, 1886. Serial No. 193,867.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoI-IN LOWE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LacingHooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in shoelacings, which will behereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings,form-ing part of this specification, Figure1 is a plan view of a blank lacing-button. Fig. 2 is a view of theopposite side of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the roller orpulley. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of a lacing-button, showing theblank of Fig. 1 partly bent up. Fig. 5 is a section of Fig. 2 on a: :0,showing the bushing-piece to support the journal of the pulley. Fig. 6is a vertical section of the button completed. Fig. 7 is a plan view ofthe bushingpiece. Fig. 8 is a section of the leather strap, showing themanner of securing the button to it. Fig. 9 shows the arrangement of thebutton on the shoe.

A A represent the metal blank which is to form the sheave for thepulley, and the bushing or socket which is to support the journal of thepulley.

a is an eyelet or hollow cone, in which is placed the bushing or socketpiece B, having the hole I) in the center. C is a pulley with twojournals, 0 0.

(No model.)

The method of forming the above-described parts into a lacing-hook is asfollowsz From the sheet of metal the blank A Ais struck up into the formshown in plan, Figs. 1 and 2, and section, Fig. 5, having a projectingeyelet, a, at one end and the saucer a at the other end. The pulley O ismade as shown in section, Fig. 3. The bushing-pieceis made about thesame thickness as the material to which the lacing is to be applied. Theblank A A is first bent into the shape shown in Fig. 4. The bushing B isinserted in the eyelet a. The pulley O is then placed in thebushing-socket b, and the end A of the blank is turned over, as seen inFig. 6. The inner side of A has a slight indentation, a, into which theend 0 of pulley G enters. It will thus be seen that blank A A forms acomplete sheave for the pulley O. The lacing-hook thus completed isinserted by the eyelet (Z into the hole of the material already punched,and by the usual In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presenceof two witnesses.

JOHN LOWE.

lVitnesses:

D. A. PIERCE, STEPHEN O. RANDALL.

